$50 billion a year? Not that much ... more like $11 billion total from 9/11 to 2008, I think.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issu...d_numbers.html
The vast majority of it is to the military. Most Pakistanis, of course, never see any American aid.
The Kerry-Lugar bill, which sought to rebalance some of this, caused the Pakistani military to throw a massive bitch fit, supposedly because this impinged on Pakistani national sovereignty.
It's emotionally satisfying for me to hear Sec. Clinton give the Pakistanis a little bit of honesty given the military's duplicity, but I'm a bit afraid that this will only feed the Pakistani political sphere's basic anti-Americanism.
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